Free Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups by Richard Belzer, David Wayne Page A

witnesses behaving so strangely, either nervously avoiding Sgt. Clemmons questions, or, in the case of one of her doctors, almost challenging him to doubt their story? Contrary to typical experience with physicians, who were readily informative and didn’t need to be probed, these two seemed to be holding back, reluctant to provide information; one doctor seemed despondent and uncommunicative; the other seemed very strange, defensive, and almost cocky, “almost challenging me to accuse him of something. I kept thinking to myself, ‘What the hell’s wrong with this fellow?’ Because it just didn’t fit the situation.”
17. An official police investigative unit arrived at the house at about 5:30 AM and re-interviewed the witnesses; it was led by Sgt. Robert Byron and overseen by Lieutenant Grover Armstrong, Chief of Detectives, West Los Angeles, LAPD. The unit leader agreed with Sgt. Clemmons’ suspicions.
Regarding the housekeeper, Sgt. Byron concluded:
“My feeling was that she had been told what to say. It had all been rehearsed beforehand. She had her story and that was it.”
Regarding the doctors, Sgt. Byron’s conclusion was:
“I didn’t feel they were telling the correct time or situation.”
18. Sgt. Clemmons kept investigating the case on his own for the rest of his life. He concluded:
“I knew at the time that the doc tors and Mrs. Murray were lying to me. Now I know that they must have moved the body and invented the locked room story. The District Attorney wouldn’t listen to me. I kept telling them that the death scene was arranged, and they said I was hallucinating.”
Sgt. Clemmons always maintained the belief that Marilyn’s death was a Homicide and that a cover-up hid the true facts of her murder.
    SIGN OF FORCED ENTRY
    An often overlooked fact is that the window of Marilyn’s bedroom (the one that did not have “anti-burglar” bars on it) was forcibly broken. A basic fact of crime scene investigation is that a broken window is always classified as inconsistent with suicide. That’s because a broken window—especially in the room where the decedent is found—is a clear and precise indication of a possible forced entry. That may very well be why the broken window became part of the cover story during the many long hours prior to the time When police were finally called—the fact that there was a broken window had to be accounted for. So, Dr. Greenson made up a story (or was told to), which we now know to be false.
    He told police that the door to Marilyn’s bedroom was locked. We now know that is not true because the housekeeper finally admitted that Marilyn almost never locked her bedroom door and that, indeed, she had not locked it on her final night. Even so, by saying that it was locked made it feasible for Dr. Greenson to have broken the window in order to get in and try to help Marilyn. We know that the window was not broken during the day or evening hours because Mrs. Murray, the housekeeper and support worker caring for Marilyn, made no effort to address a broken window. She certainly would not have let the world’s most famous movie star go to bed with an unprotected window—she was charged with Marilyn’s care by her psychiatrist and was very attentive and industrious in that regard (and did, in fact, immediately address the issue of the broken window at the moment that she knew of it, even in the very difficult early morning hours, by calling her son- in-law to come over and repair it). Therefore, the window was apparently broken close to the time of Marilyn’s death.
    The locked filing cabinet in which Marilyn kept her most important personal papers, which was located in her guest cottage, was also forcibly broken into on the night that she died.
    SIGNS OF A STRUGGLE: Many fresh bruises were noted on the victim’s body, especially a very large bruise on the lower left side of her back. The medical examiner later stated that the large bruise was clearly a “sign of